A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...
As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...
"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update ...
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...
The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...
The Odin spacecraft aims to capture images of asteroid 2022 OB5, which is believed to contain significant amounts of platinum ...
California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.
It was supposed to be the start of asteroid mining. But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact ...
"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...
At the time of Gialich's update Saturday morning, the Odin spacecraft was over 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) from Earth and largely following its intended trajectory. On Friday, AstroForge ...
Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector ...